Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price from a wife-seeker...
Cradle Snatchers. Those who have seen the play by the same name, about the middle-aged wives who prove that no girl need consider herself older than she feels as long as young men are working their way through college, will know what to expect...
...Boston. It arrives heralded by laudatory--nay, panegyrical--criticisms from New York. There appears to be a distinct impression that Mr. de Mille has generally improved the original. He has added a great many details to enhance the glory of his film. He has given it what one would expect from him--lavishness. The result is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, according to the blushing advertisements...
Then last week Chairman D. H. Hanna of the Ontario Liquor Com-mission made ominous pronouncement. Said he: "American visitors will be disappointed if they expect any big blowouts in Ontario. Liquor cannot be bought without a permit and one-day tourists will not be able to get either permits or liquor." He warned U. S. railroads, reported as hav-ing advertised special trains to Ontario that "excursionists" would not be given permits, would return dry, disappointed...
Within a few months, Mr. & Mrs. Johnson expect to set out for the Congo to film gorillas, okapi (large shy forest-dwelling herbivore, with bizarre stripes, as yet unphotographed...